Graph Transductions and Typological Gaps in Morphological Paradigms

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Several typological gaps have attracted a lot of interest in the linguistic literature recently. These concern the Person Case Constraint and the absence of ABA patterns in adjectival gradation, pronoun suppletion, case syncretism, and singular noun allomorphy, among others. This paper is the first to provide a unified explanation of all these phenomena, and it does so via weakly non-inverting graphtransductions. A pattern P is absent from the typology whenever such transductions cannot produce the graph corresponding to P from some fixed underlying base graph. I show that weakly non-inverting graphtransductions are particularly simple from a computational perspective, and consequently all these typological gaps follow from general simplicity desiderata.
形态范式中的图转导和类型间隙
近年来,语言学文献中对几种类型的空白引起了极大的兴趣。这些问题涉及人称格约束和形容词级配、代词补充、格融合和单数名词异型等方面ABA模式的缺失。这篇论文是第一个对所有这些现象提供统一解释的论文,它是通过弱非逆变图转导来实现的。当这种转换不能从某个固定的基础图中产生对应于P的图时,模式P就不在类型学中。从计算的角度来看,弱非反转的图转导是特别简单的,因此所有这些类型间隙都遵循一般的简单性要求。
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